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Tao Stoic 208

"These newspapers and other media, why cannot they speak True Words master?"

"It is not in their interest to do so. What have you in Mind?"

"These yearly forest-fires. Always they say: 'due to the extreme hot and dry weather'. They never are. Temperatures NEVER approach the very lowest ignition levels thinkable. Fires should not start except for the rare cases of lightning or the rubbing of branches against each other."

"Indeed, lightning then, would have been known to have occured and the branch rubbing seldom is effective enough. The causes are practically always 'Man', his stupidity, his criminal stupidity. Some people have invented the thrown away bottles or glass, acting as lenses 5. They are the people who have NEVER tried it. Indeed, it is always man who does it. Often accidentally, but lately as deliberate act because the modern fire-fighting systems are so impressive. Newspapers mention a sub-cause or rather an auxiliary sub-condition of the dry weather, in order to retain the news-ness of the phenomenon. Their fortunes depend on catastrophe, not on solutions."


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Ven 2005-01-24